war on women

We write as concerned Texans from across faith traditions. As clergy from diverse religious communities, we are united in our overwhelming opposition to TX HB2/SB1. As Texans who honor the wellbeing of all and answer to the imperative for justice, we are deeply troubled by the dangers this bill poses to women’s safety, equal access to reproductive health care across the state, women’s dignity, and religious freedom.

One of the arguments philosophers have made against voluntarism(the will of an authority alone as a guiding force, internal or external) is that choices, especially moral choices, are not either the purview of individual or the communal. Making good moral choices is about balancing the voice of whatever authority you trust (religious, governmental, internal, etc.) with critical thinking, community standards and conscience
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Unless you’ve been too caught up watching Tivo’d episodes of Honey Boo Boo, or are willfully impersonating an ostrich, it would be hard not to notice that women have been at the forefront of our political and cultural minds in the last year. Whether it was February’s debate over the place of contraception in healthcare, the personal attacks and speculations about the women who spoke in favor of the mandate, the fact that in 2011 across all 50 states over 1100 pieces of legislation were enacted that directly affected women’s access to abortion, contraception and other healthcare, or the recent fallout over Mitt Romney’s “Binders full of Women” comment, the reality is that everybody and their brother seems to have an opinion on women, our place in society, what we should be allowed to do, and how we ought to live.